Scientific 'consensus' wrong again.

[manbearpig]

Scientific consensus fails again: Start of “Anthropocene” pushed back to Late Pleistocene, scientist vindicated | Watts Up With That?

That summer, while sifting through earth in Sequim, the young Gustafson uncovered something extraordinary _ a mastodon bone with a shaft jammed in it. This appeared to be a weapon that had been thrust into the beast’s ribs, a sign that humans had been around and hunting far earlier than anyone suspected.
Unfortunately for Gustafson, few scientists agreed. He was challenging orthodoxy with less-than-perfect evidence. For almost 35 years, his find was ridiculed or ignored, the site dismissed as curious but not significant. But earlier this month, a team that re-examined his discovery using new technology concluded in the prestigious journal Science that Gustafson had been right all along.

[Besoeker]

In truth, the "Clovis first" model, which holds to the idea that America's original human population swept across a land-bridge from Siberia some 13,000 years ago, has looked untenable for some time.

A succession of archaeological finds right across the United States and northern Mexico have indicated there was human activity much earlier than this - perhaps as early as 15-16,000 years ago.

........First things first… This “discovery” does not alter the fact that the original human inhabitants of the Americas most likely migrated into North America from Siberia across the Bering land bridge. It remains the only viable pathway. Pushing their migration back in time a few thousand years into the Pleistocene just means that the first wave arrived before the Bølling /Allerød interstadials during the Oldest Dryas instead of during the Younger Dryas..

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[chimera]

How many scientists are in the denier sub-species of sapiens sapiens?

[Tim the plumber]

I would be more convinced if there were signs of butchery on the bone and others of a similar age. The "shaft" might have been from the animal falling onto a sharp stick after all. Humans leave lots of evidence behind them as they use fire and cut up animals with sharp knives before boiling them. Other animals don't do this kind of thing as often.

[Clippo]

So what has this thread subject to do with Energy and Environment ?

[chimera]

mbp has gaffed again with a no-ball about scientist consensus being corrected. He did it underarm during tea break.